Word: order
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...defeated team is in no mood for enjoyment, while the winners are under constant restraint to keep their satisfaction from adding to the discomfiture of their opponents. The new arrangement bids fair to be both more graceful and more satisfactory to everybody. Another important change is in the order of rebuttal speeches. During the coming year the affirmative instead of the negative will make the last rebuttal speech and close the debate. This is in accordance with the procedure in law courts, and removes the too great advantage heretofore held by the negative. The disadvantages of the burden of proof...
...definite set of instructions is to be drawn up and printed upon slips sent the judges before the debate. During the debate the judges are to be seated separately in order to avoid the present tendency of the debaters to speak to one part of the house. In the selection of judges, a list of twenty will be submitted together with the question, six weeks before the debate. Two weeks later nine names, in order of preference, will be returned. Of these nine the first three in order who accept will be chosen to judge the debate...
...Harvard Golf Club won its match with the Brookline Country Club at Clyde Park, Brookline, on Saturday afternoon by the score of 23 holes to 5. The playing was of a high order throughout...
...order to make sure that the class debating organizations shall work in harmony with the general scheme of University debating, an interclass debating committee has been formed. It is composed of representatives of the various class clubs and one member of the University Debating Club. While the clubs will conduct their own individual matters, the committee will assume a general direction ever all of them. An attempt will be made to secure debates between the class clubs and organizations outside of College, to take place before Christmas. After Christmas the regular interclass series will occur. The Seniors will debate against...
...usual long "leading" piece. It contains, instead, expanded daily themes, which, though they possess no literary merit, are interesting to undergraduates. In a story called "Pierre's Mountains," Richard Edwards '00 sketches the character of a Swiss boy and narrates his struggles to overcome love for home in order to follow attractions in Paris. Throughout the narrative, the writer has skillfully blended description and exposition. "At the Edge of the Moor," by Apthorp Gould Fuller '00, exemplifies the evil of disingenuousness of expression. With the evident purpose of outdoing Stevenson, the writer has produced a story which sounds strained...